Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

Underfunding of mental health services has cost thousands of lives …

The report represents an important next step on the road towards improving England's mental health. But with the scale of the challenges currently facing services, the best way to manage need in the long-term will be to direct …

Forget about a mental health revolution without new cash | Polly …

Suicide rates are rising, as is self-harming, with services so bad that lives are “put on hold or ruined” for lack of care, with mental health patients dying 15 to 20 years earlier than others. Beds are so scarce that 2,000 acutely ill …

“enough is enough” to government on Deaf mental health services

Two bitter blows have been dealt to the Deaf community this week. The Deaf Health Charity SignHealth says “enough is enough.” Recently, NHS England said it wanted to scrap the Clinical Reference Group on Deaf Mental …

SignHealth says “enough is enough” to government on Deaf mental …

'Mental health services for Deaf people are already shockingly poor. These announcements make a bad situation worse. Most Deaf people do not have access to psychological therapies on the same basis as hearing people.

Covering Your Health Special Report: Battling mental illness | KIMT 3

We talk to two people in our area who fight mental illness on a daily basis.